Events on Thursday, May 27
Thursday 5/27 @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
Jack Passion is a bearding legend. The 25-year-old is a two-time winner at the World Beard and Mustache Competition. His beard...
Thursday 5/27 @ The Green Arcade
Writer, filmmaker, and Joseph Campbell biographer Phil Cousineau recounts a lifetime of collecting precious words tonight, as he reads from his...
Thursday 5/27 @ Rickshaw Stop
SF Popfest says: Tune-Yards is the singular musical project of New England native Merrill Garbus. Possessing an expansive sound that marries...
Film Screening: CALIFORNIA HIGHS, CALIFORNIA LOWS PROGRAM 1
Thursday 5/27 @ SFMOMA
Phyllis Wattis Theater Bucky (episodes 1 and 2),...
Thursday 5/27 @ Great American Music Hall
"Their finest album yet."—NME "Full of moodily uplifting tunes, Lucky showcases the trio's perfect balance between wistfulness and hope."—Alternative Press "Nada...
Curator Talk: One on One: Rudolf Frieling on Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" (Golden)
Thursday 5/27 @ SFMOMA
Hear the backstory on your favorite artworks. Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a...
Sam Keen / In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred
Thursday 5/27 @ The Booksmith
As global residents within a culture of fanaticism, materialism and greed, is it possible to bridge our differences and dwell in...
Ongoing Events
To the Limit: Pina Bausch on Film
Thursday 5/27 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Pina Bausch, the German modern dance virtuoso, used to ask her dancers to react to a series of questions and statements...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Thursday 5/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Thursday 5/27 @ Hypnodrome
In early '70s San Francisco, before David Bowie and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, there were the Cockettes. This gender-bending, free-wheeling...
Thursday 5/27 @ Roxie Theater
William Beaudine is the most prolific director in the history of motion pictures — he churned out nearly 500 films in...
Thursday 5/27 @ Fort Mason Center
Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with...
Thursday 5/27 @ Roxie Theater
David Choe is a petty thief, sex addict, and a born-again Christian. He also likes traveling to the Congo to hunt...
Thursday 5/27 @ 1:AM Gallery
The folks behind New York collective TrustoCorp have tossed aside the spray paint and developed their own technique for creating street...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Thursday 5/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
The exhibition is the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellia's, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005. The...
Thursday 5/27 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Thursday 5/27 @ EXIT Theatre
Peter S. Beagle had a literary agent at 17 and wrote his first novel at 19. He now holds an iconic...
Thursday 5/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Film Screening: LIGHT IN THE WEST: PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER 1860-1880
Thursday 5/27 @ SFMOMA
spanArt
Thursday 5/27 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Thursday 5/27 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Thursday 5/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Thursday 5/27 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Thursday 5/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection
Thursday 5/27 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Thursday 5/27 @ Elbo Room
Afrolicious with DJs/hosts brothers Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, along with resident drummers J. Elrod and B. Lee bring you the best in Latin and...
Thursday 5/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
Thursday 5/27 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 5/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
Thursday 5/27 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
